Siege

Ereignisse (11)

• 1453

  5/29 — Fall von Konstantinopel: Die osmanischen Armeen unter Sultan Mehmed II. Fatih nehmen Konstantinopel nach einer 53-tägigen Belagerung ein und beenden das Byzantinische Reich.

• 1836

  3/6 — Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

• 1863

  11/17 — Bürgerkrieg der USA: Belagerung von Knoxville beginnt: Die Konföderierten unter General James Longstreet legen Knoxville, Tennessee, unter Belagerung.

• 1864

  9/1 — Der Konföderierte-Armee-Generalleutnant John Bell Hood ordnet die Evakuierung von Atlanta an, was das viermonatige Belagerung durch General William Tecumseh Sherman beendet.

• 456

  9/17 — Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged by a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.

• 493

  2/25 — Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.

• 537

  3/2 — Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.

• 598

  3/30 — Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.

• 627

  3/31 — Schlacht des Grabens: Muhammad erleidet einen 14-tägigen Belagerungszustand in Medina (Saudi-Arabien) durch die Mekkaner unter Abu Sufyan.

• 649

  1/19 — Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.

• 801

  4/3 — König Ludwig der Fromme erobert Barcelona von den Mauren nach einem Belagerung von mehreren Monaten.